After
UN Censorship
Alliance Prez
Screams of
Crime &
Slander, New
Season Starts

By
Matthew
Russell Lee

UNITED
NATIONS,
February 25 –
The president
of the UN
Correspondents
Association on
February 22
called Inner
City Press “a mugger”
and said that
it might be “
a crime”
to send
questions to
other media
organizations
about their
policies.

But he
again refused
to answer when
asked directly
about a
document
obtained under
FOIA
reflecting
that UNCA met
“very quietly”
with UN
officials to
get Inner City
Press thrown
out. Click
here for audio;
click here
to view the
document.

FUNCA
was launched
on December 7,
2012, to
improve the
access of
journalists
around the
world covering
the UN and its
agencies and
to defend
freedom of the
press from the
type of
stealth attack
launched by
Big Media
members of
UNCA in 2012.

Nevertheless,
the
UNCA president
after saying
“I have
nothing to say
to this man”
asked Inner
City Press to
come back to
UNCA. Well, no. UNCA
is the
organization
whose leaders
banded
together in
2012 to try to
get the
investigative
Press thrown
out of the UN.

Her
reports, when
they happen,
are called “Up
To The
Minute.” But
when asked
whether she
was aware of
or looked into
UNCA's recent
activities
before
becoming
UNCA's
figurehead,
she cited a
writer, Alan
Riding, who
was at the UN
forty years
ago and now
lives in
Paris.

We say, name
dropping won't
cut it
anymore, and
information
from forty
year ago is
not really Up
To The Minute.

That
the
interchange
was on the
record was
repeatedly
emphasized to
her and her
first vice
president from
Reuters, who
says his past
censorship
demands should
not or even
cannot be
reported. On
February 22 he
endeavored
again to
dictate the
contents of
this website,
and of FUNCA
flyers.
Neither is
acceptable.

While
she trumpets
her law
degree,
frankly she
does not seem
understand the
First
Amendment to
the US
Constitution.
For the
record,
writing to
Voice of
America is
protected
petition of
government for
the redress of
grievances --
it is not even
plausibly a
“crime,” as
she claimed.

Screaming,
name dropping
and attempts
at
intimidation
won't work: a
new season has
begun. Watch
this site.